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Responsibility Requires Control

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Moral responsibility presupposes control: praise and blame make sense only for what was, in the relevant sense, up to the agent.

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No one blames you for the weather—or for a sneeze. The free will debate decides where choices fall.

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Every position ahead keeps this principle and argues over what satisfies it.